University of Houston

This site, located on the main campus of the University of
Houston, was opened in 1979 for the purpose of studying the
behavior of groups of driven piles for the Federal Highway
Administration. It has been in use since then for a variety of other
studies, focusing mainly on the behavior of foundations, and has been
used by several universities and private companies. The site is
located about 5 km seaward of the surficial interface of the Beaumont
and Montgomery formations on the Pleistocene Texas Gulf coastal
plain.